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A Monochrome Glaze on the World
What we need, according to Terry Eagleton, is something deeper and more responsive than optimism.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with David Golumbia
Part 8 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy.
The Question Concerning Heidegger
A new translation of early lectures by Derrida on Heidegger questions a tradition that we can conveniently sum up with the word: metaphysics.
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Pamela Fletcher
Part 7 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy.
Life and Death at the Existentialist Café
An accessible and highly readable account of the philosophical achievements of Europe’s major existentialist thinkers.
Nothing Inorganic
Readers compelled by turns to materialism, ecology, and ontology could hardly hope for a better introduction to lesser-known features of Thoreau’s work.
The Enemy Imaginary
A review of William V. Spanos’s scathing critique of American exceptionalism.
Hyperdistractions
Dominic Pettman’s "Infinite Distraction" is, quite literally, a product of the processes it describes.
Speed Intoxication
When we ask why we don’t have enough time, we make it worse.
The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Marisa Parham
Part 6 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy.
Rousseau’s State of Pure Nature
Althusser’s reading of Rousseau takes us to the very heart of questions on the management of our natural world in the age of the Anthropocene.
Althusser’s Philosophical Disorder
“Philosophy,” as Althusser writes, “is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”
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